Helps refine the research agenda for food allergy dose-response assessment.
Using a pre-defined algorithm, the researchers recorded questions asked by the pharmacist, details of medicines dispensed, and instructions regarding drug allergies, dose and side effects.
Except in cases of true allergy, further dose reductions might improve tolerability and still offer a therapeutic benefit.
Computerized provider order entry systems commonly contain alerting mechanisms for patient allergies, incorrect doses, or drug drug interactions when ordering medications.
This study examines the effect of customizing medication alert override options on the appropriateness of override selection related to patient allergies, drug dosing, and drug drug interactions when ordering medications in an electronic medical record.
The new findings could help researchers predict what other foods might cause allergies and give doctors a more accurate way to dose allergy shots. .
Lowering the dose reduces allergy symptoms in some people, and in others it eliminates suffering altogether.
Knowing what parasite protein the allergen resembles could allow doctors to give that protein to patients instead of the pollen; that would make it easier to dose the allergy shots, as well as make the immunotherapy safer, Furnham says.
As they note, their system does not offer DSS-type warnings about drug-drug interactions, allergies, or toxic doses; however, it does have pull down menus indicating dosing and route, a feature that influences physicians' decisions.
29 Furthermore, CDSSs are probably best introduced into healthcare organizations in two stages, basic stage (such as drug-allergy checking, basic dosing guidance, and drug-drug interaction checking) and advanced stage (including dosing support for geriatric patients, guidance for medication-related laboratory testing, and drug-pregnancy checking).
